The source expression أُولُو مَالٍ means people possessing wealth, or people of means.
أُولُو: nominative form; أُولِي: accusative and genitive form.
This word is treated among the forms attached to the sound masculine plural. «أُولُو / أُولِي» is a muḍāf and the following noun its muḍāf ilayh, as in «مَالٍ».